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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Guy de Maupassant

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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